More than a dozen AI data centers near O’Hare International Airport in suburban Chicago are receiving at least $100 million in local property tax breaks this year, pushing more of the tax burden onto Cook County homeowners.
You expect to find dead bodies in a funeral home — but not more than 50 of them, unrefrigerated and producing a stench that wafted into the neighborhood and prompted investigators to pay a visit.
Cook County, Illinois, is making its guaranteed basic income program permanent after launching it as a pilot program in 2022 with the help of federal COVID-19 relief funds.
A Chicago area judge has ruled that ICE officers can be arrested at Cook County courthouses if they violate his orders.
The chief judge of Illinois’ largest county has issued an order to ban immigration officers from arresting migrants in the county’s courthouses without a warrant.
A group of 11 Chicago area teenagers have been hit with felony charges, including hate crimes, after allegedly using dating apps to lure and beat two men in an act inspired by a social media trend, police said.
Kim Foxx, the disgraced George Soros-backed Cook County prosecutor who was chased out of office in Chicago, has lost her license to practice law in the state of Illinois.
An Illinois Democrat who was charged with drunk driving after allegedly crashing her car repeatedly flexed being an “elected official” and sexually harassed an arresting officer, bodycam footage and police revealed.
There have been 22 shootings, resulting in at least six fatalities, in Chicago, Illinois, since Monday, the day on which the DNC began.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx preemptively announced that she will not prosecute protesters who are “peaceful” at the DNC.
A former Illinois public school food service director has been sentenced to nine years in prison for pulling off a $1.5 million chicken wing heist, prosecutors said.
A North Carolina woman died at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Thursday morning after becoming “entangled” in a luggage carousel, officials said.
ABC 7 noted that, as of Sunday, July 7, 2024 — the last day of the July 4, 2024, weekend — Chicago was nearly at 1,200 shootings for 2024.
The progressive candidate for Cook County State’s Attorney is suddenly closing the gap after more than 10,000 votes were suddenly “found” in Chicago.
Almost 400 foreign nationals have been found on voter rolls in Cook County, Illinois, home to the city of Chicago, and subsequently asked to have their registrations canceled since 2007, according to election data shared with Breitbart News.
Officials have reportedly implemented updated rules to keep people from trying to smuggle drug-laced papers into Illinois’ Cook County Jail.
A 27-year-old Minnesota man is accused of fatally beating an elderly sex offender to death on Wednesday, using a shovel and moose antler.
Police say a man committed an armed robbery on a Chicago sidewalk and then began chowing down on a takeout order of fried chicken.
An illegal alien, accused of killing 66-year-old Dennis McCann in June 2011, has been captured in Mexico and extradited to the United States to stand trial after having been released 11 years ago by the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois.
Cook County, Illinois, Chief Judge Timothy Evans and Sheriff Tom Dart are asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit that seeks to hold them responsible for the killing of a Vietnam War veteran allegedly at the hands of two accused criminals released from jail on electronic home monitoring.
A convicted felon in Chicago, who was on bail, is being accused by prosecutors of armed robbery and shooting a man, CWB Chicago reported.
A convict who allegedly carjacked a woman eating lunch in her vehicle in Chicago was already on parole for shooting someone and on electronic monitoring after a firearm possession charge.
A man who allegedly shot a Chicago police officer in June was arrested in Burlington, Iowa, on Wednesday, according to the Chicago Police Department (CPD)
The family of a woman who was the victim of an apparent murder-suicide is suing the Cook County sheriff and chief judge, claiming they bear responsibility for her death by placing the alleged murderer in an electronic monitoring program they knew was not being adequately managed.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s husband, Kelley Foxx, called police to their Illinois home for an incident involving his daughter, one week after officers were dispatched to their residence, where Kelley told officers that Kim slapped him in the face, according to police reports.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s husband’s 911 call has surfaced days after a police report came to light showing he alleged that Kim became physical and slapped him. Police in Flossmoor, Illinois, some 28 miles south of Chicago, were
The husband of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx called police to their home and claimed she slapped him, per a police report.
Cameron Bowman, 31, of Chicago was sentenced to two years probation after he stole more than half a million dollars in change from his former employer “while working as an armored car driver,” CWB Chicago reports.
A Chicago judge was perplexed why a man was charged with a misdemeanor when the case sounded “more like an aggravated vehicular hijacking.”
A 14-year-old boy is dead after being shot late last month while trying to rob a retired Cook County, Illinois, sheriff’s officer. The retired officer was “distraught” after learning the age of the suspect he shot during the incident.
Jussie Smollett’s sister expressed outrage once the actor was sentenced to jail for 150 days and ordered to pay more than $120,000 in restitution.
Chicago Alderman Michele Smith (D-Ward 43) wants her constituents to wear whistles, which they can blow while running towards armed robbers, should they witness a crime taking place.
The office of Special Prosecutor Dan Webb released its full 60-page “summary report” Monday afternoon of its investigation into the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx over her improper handling of the Jussie Smollett case in 2019.
Cook County, Illinois, claimed a grim milestone with over 1,000 homicides in 2021, the highest total since there were 1,141 homicides 27 years ago, the country’s Medical Examiner’s Office said.
Disgraced actor Jussie Smollett will have to stand trial over his 2019 alleged hate crime hoax after a Cook County judge denied his dismissal request.
Over 300 hundred people have been killed in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago thus far in 2021.
District Attorneys Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Kimberly Foxx in Cook County, Illinois, and Diana Becton in Contra Costa County, California, all of whom have taken campaign donations from billionaire George Soros, are helping criminal illegal aliens avoid deportation from the United States, an investigation reveals.
Indoor dining will return on a limited basis in Chicago and suburban Cook County for the first time since last fall.
About 1,600 of Illinois’ Cook County employees joined a strike Tuesday amid a dispute regarding pandemic pay and their working conditions.
Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro announced this week that freshmen and sophomore students would be asked to leave campus to mitigate the spread of coronavirus on campus. Many students affected by the decision arrived on campus just days before the announcement.
